Chapter 0229: The Power of the Forging Dragon Hammer

Chapter 0229: The Power of the Forging Dragon Hammer

The words of the West Palace's leader angered the elder woman.

"Now that they are all dead, let bygones be bygones!" The West Palace's leader smiled faintly: "Your Eastern Palace should celebrate. Only you have any hope of recruiting Qin Yun. If he becomes a disciple of Blue Spirit Star Palace, there will be fewer problems in the future."

Qin Yun's talent made the four palace masters envious.

Previously, Shui Yihui had invited Qin Yun to join, but was rejected, so they had no choice but to give up.

"It seems someone instigated those four disciples. Don't you plan to find out?" The Southern Palace's leader asked with a faint smile.

"Who could have instigated them? Let it go. I'm going back to rest," the West Palace's leader said, then hurriedly left.

The other three palace masters knew he was avoiding the issue, as everyone was aware that it was Xiao Yanglong who did it.

……

Qin Yun and the others were quietly recovering from their injuries.

The fastest to recover wasn't Qin Yun, but Xue Ziye. It was unclear why she healed so quickly, which puzzled many.

After her recovery, she went to patrol the area.

Soon after, Qin Yun and the others would recover and leave the place full of vigor. Their four figures disappeared from the crystal stone wall again.

Unable to see them, the crowd was disappointed and could only look forward to Qin Yun's next battle with Demon Beasts.

"Brother Yun, I never expected you to break through like that!" Murong Daren was still amazed. "And your Martial Soul is incredibly powerful!"

Qin Yun smiled. "I had no other option. If I hadn't broken through, we'd all be dead by now."

Xue Ziye's purple eyes flickered as she whispered, "Captain, thank you. Otherwise... I might have been in a living hell!"

"Since you call me captain, I have to take responsibility for you, so don't thank me!" Qin Yun smiled freely. "You were planning to sacrifice yourselves so I could escape. I should be thanking you."

Xue Ziye nodded, revealing a faint smile, which quickly disappeared but was caught by Qin Yun.

"By the way, after my breakthrough, my mental energy increased. I sensed something near the place where we killed the Black Giant Tiger, emitting spatial rune fluctuations." Qin Yun frowned.

"Is it a storage spirit artifact?" Murong Daren said excitedly. "Should we go back and check?"

"No, the area has residual auras from the battle. It will attract not only other Demon Beasts but also other teams. For safety, we shouldn't go," Qin Yun said, though he found it strange, he didn't dwell on it.

Xue Ziye said, "We need to hurry and hunt Demon Beasts. We've wasted a lot of time before."

They needed to return to the main gate of Blue Spirit Star Palace before nightfall, and their Demon Core Beads still hadn't absorbed enough energy. It was uncertain if they could secure first place.

First place would earn them one hundred million Xuan points, which was incredibly valuable!

Murong Daren smiled. "Now that Brother Yun has reached the eighth level of the Martial Body stage, if we team up, even a ninth-stage Demon Beast won't stand a chance."

As Qin Yun walked, he released his mental energy to scout. He suddenly sensed that spatial fluctuation again.

He muttered in confusion, "Strange, I sense that spatial fluctuation again, and there are Demon Beasts over there."

Murong Daren thought for a moment and smiled. "Spatial fluctuations indicate a spatial artifact. The presence of such an artifact where there are Demon Beasts means someone might be secretly observing us."

"Very possible!" Qin Yun said, a look of surprise on his face. "It's very likely that someone saw our earlier battle!"

"Really? This is the end for me. The handsome me has been seen in such an embarrassing state by others; I'll never be able to show my face in public again." Murong Daren dramatically wailed.

Xue Ziyeh muttered, "If that's true, it's pretty embarrassing."

"Forget it, we'll talk about it later. For now, we need to kill more Demon Beasts to ensure we get first place and each receive 100 million Xuan points."

Qin Yun quickened his pace and rushed toward the massive boulder ahead, which was several dozen meters tall, where Demon Beasts were hiding.

As they approached, many shadows suddenly flashed from the top of the boulder. It turned out to be a group of flying Demon Beasts with eagle heads and cow bodies.

"They're flying Demon Beasts!" Murong Daren hurriedly waved the fan in his hand, creating a violent gust of wind that sent the five descending bull-hawks screeching.

The bull-hawks were unsettled by the chaotic air currents, making their flight unstable, but Murong Daren's Diamond Inner Energy was able to accurately hit them amidst the chaos.

"Should we fly up?" Xue Ziyeh looked at the hundred-meter-high sky and asked.

Both she and Huo Zhong couldn't attack from the ground but were eager to contribute.

"No need! These Demon Beasts are good at flying; it would be dangerous for you to go up. We'll attack from the ground. Leave it to me and Murong Laoer." Qin Yun took out the Spirit Refined Blade and released his Thunder Fire Martial Soul into the blade. He then used the Divine Control Technique to make the blade fly up.

Mastering the Divine Control Technique means attaching your Martial Soul to the weapon, boosting its power significantly.

The Spirit Refined Blade flew into the air, connected to Qin Yun's arm by a purple-golden lightning tendril, not completely detached from Qin Yun's body. This way, the Martial Soul within the blade could continuously draw energy from his Inner Element.

Murong Daren sent the bull-hawks scattering with his attacks, and once Qin Yun's blade ascended, it easily severed the wing of one bull-hawk.

"Boom!" The bull-hawk fell to the ground with a loud noise. Huo Zhong and Xue Ziyeh quickly moved in to finish it off.

One by one, the five eighth-stage Demon Beasts were felled by Qin Yun's blade.

Huo Zhong and Xue Ziyeh quickly extracted the magic crystal cores from the fallen Demon Beasts.

Qin Yun used the Demon Core Beads to absorb the energy from the magic crystal cores and then hurried off to find more Demon Beasts.

"The eighth-stage bull-hawks are notoriously tough to handle. Since they can fly, they're excellent at ambushes. I didn't expect them to be taken down so quickly!" an elder mentor watching the crystal stone wall exclaimed.

"Qin Yun has reached the eighth level of the Martial Body stage, making him even faster at slaying Demon Beasts!"

"Look, they've encountered a ninth-stage Demon Beast, a six-winged Demon Mantis. This thing has taken down many ninth-level warriors!"

"This is trouble. The six-winged Demon Mantis is terrifying. Its flight speed is incredibly fast, and even a ninth-level Martial Body team might not be able to take it down."

Everyone could see a black-armored mantis, as tall as a human, flying rapidly toward Qin Yun's group. It had a pair of frighteningly large scissors capable of easily cutting through a human body.

Qin Yun knew this fast-approaching red mantis was strong, but strong or not, it was still just a ninth-stage Demon Beast. Without hesitation, he took out a mid-grade Immobilization Rune and threw it at the rapidly approaching mantis.

The flying mantis was immobilized and fell from the sky!

Immediately after, Qin Yun controlled the Spirit Refined Blade to fly out and slash at it, while Murong Daren struck from a distance with Diamond Inner Energy, continuously bombarding the red mantis's head.

As the effect of the Immobilization Rune wore off, Xue Ziyeh moved in, her Spirit Refined Blade swiftly slicing off the mantis's wings. Then Huo Zhong leaped forward, his long staff smashing down on the mantis's head as he landed.

Qin Yun pulled out the Giant Spirit King Hammer and brought it crashing down from above, the head of the hammer like a meteor executing the falling star technique from the Six Dragon Forging Techniques!

Boom!

The giant hammer struck the mantis's head, activating the alchemical and violent runes, releasing an incredibly hot power that turned the mantis's head into flying ash.

The heat blast sent Huo Zhong and Xue Ziyeh flying back over ten meters, their faces flushed and bodies drenched in sweat, both terrified by the searing heat.

The disciples of Blue Spirit Star Palace let out a surprised uproar upon seeing Qin Yun destroy the six-winged mantis with a single hammer blow!

With just one hammer, he turned the mantis' hard carapace into ash, a display of strength that was shocking to the extreme. What was even more shocking was that Qin Yun was only at the eighth level of the Martial Body stage!

Shui Yihui was deeply shocked and said, "Qin Yun's refined runes must be top-tier spirit runes to generate such intense heat, capable of melting the bones of a ninth-level Demon Beast. Qin Yun's Martial Soul has fully recovered. With that hammer strike, he could produce the materials needed for a high-grade spirit weapon!"

At sixteen years old, being able to refine low-grade spirit artifacts is already astounding! The fact that Qin Yun might be able to refine a high-grade spirit weapon is hard for everyone to accept.

While they couldn't be certain if Qin Yun could refine a high-grade spirit weapon, they were sure that the Giant Spirit King Hammer in Qin Yun's hands was a high-grade spirit weapon!

Being able to refine a high-grade spirit artifact at sixteen years old is still incredibly impressive!

In the following hours, everyone witnessed Qin Yun lead his team to effortlessly slaughter several eighth and ninth-level Demon Beasts, obtaining dozens of eighth-level magic crystal cores and a few ninth-level ones.

Many warriors at the ninth level of the Martial Body stage felt humbled by such overwhelming combat strength.

As it was getting dark, Qin Yun and his team left the desolate mountains and returned to the gate of Blue Spirit Star Palace.

There were already many teams at the gate, most of them injured to some extent, and most of the teams had returned much earlier.

When Qin Yun's team came back, they were completely unharmed, though they looked a bit tired.

"Qin Yun, what was your haul? How many eighth-level Demon Beasts did you kill?" a youth asked with a smile.

"Oh, just a few dozen, I guess," Murong Daren replied nonchalantly with a faint smile. "Our strength isn't much, so we only managed to kill a few ninth-level Demon Beasts. I wonder what that counts as?"

A man not far away, upon hearing this, sneered and mocked, "Mister Murong, don't make us laugh. It's hard enough to deal with eighth-level Demon Beasts, let alone ninth-level ones. You're saying you actually managed to kill a few ninth-level Demon Beasts?"

This man was close to Sun Jinhao and disliked Qin Yun's team. He smirked proudly, "If it were Big Brother Sun and his team who killed those ninth-level Demon Beasts, we might have believed it. But you guys? Hahaha... just bragging!"

"Sorry, but your Big Brother Sun isn't coming back," Qin Yun said with a faint smile.